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Does Services Sector Encourage Migration and Reduce Poverty?
The Indian Journal of Labour EconomicsDoes Services Sector Encourage Migration and Reduce Poverty?
The Indian Journal of Labour EconomicsShedding light on unnoticed gems in India: Small towns’ development...
Shedding light on unnoticed gems in India: Small towns’ development perspective Mitra, Arup and Tripathi, Sabyasachi 2021 Employment, Labour and Informal Sector Though a large portion of India’s urban population is living in large cities, the latest Census period (2001-2011) showed that small towns (population less than 0.1 million) such as Census ...Mobility at the Lower Echelons?Evidence Based on Slum Household Panel Data...
This paper based on the household panel data collected from the slum surveys in the national capital of India notes that the extent of mobility is not uniform across slum households, which in the literature is interpreted as time independent mobility. It tries to identify the determinants of mobility through various econometric ...Reliability of PLFS 2019-20 Data.
Reliability of PLFS 2019-20 Data.COVID-19 and the Paris Agreement target: A CGE analysis of alternative...
Journal of Urban Planning and DevelopmentCity Size Effect on Migration and Poverty: Study of Million-Plus Cities in...
Journal of Urban Planning and Development.Agglomeration Economies and Rural to Urban Migration: A District Level...
Keeping in view the concept of agglomeration economies and the New Economic Geography (NEG) angle, this paper makes an attempt to examine the rural to urban population movement at the district level in India. The findings tend to confirm that higher levels of urbanisation and higher migration rates are not strongly associated. ...Technology, Productivity growth and productivity employment trade-offs.
Productivity: A Quarterly Journal of The National Productivity Council.Assessing impact of women health on poverty based on evidence from Nepal
International Journal of Child Health and Human DevelopmentDoes climate change perception make livelihood diversification more...
Poor households engage in multiple activities to maintain their consumption in face of economic hardships or exogenous shocks. In this paper, we try to examine the effectiveness of such livelihood diversification to increase or maintain the inter-temporal consumption level conditional to the climate change knowledge of the households. We use a cross ...What causes poor child health in India? Reflections from NFHS-5.
International Journal of Child and Adolescent HealthLivelihood Volatility in the Urban Labour Market: Reflections from...
This study aims at capturing the labour market volatility which is conceptualized in terms of the lack of sustainable sources of livelihood round the year. Though we are not able to identify the number of times workers change their jobs, the change in the job status which cannot occur unless the job ...Long-term growth employment relationship in India
Journal of Asian Development ResearchWhat Causes Poor Child Health in India? Reflections from NFHS-5
This paper based on the data from the NFHS-5 examines various indicators of child health in India. A variety of correlates have been considered in order to understand the causes of poor health outcomes and reflect on effective strategies which may contribute to better health of the children. The inter-spatial variations bring ...Employment and TFP Impact of Technologies in the Developing World:...
This study assesses the impact of technology import, input import, foreign ownership of the company and domestic innovation on productivity and employment. For this purpose, we analyze enterprises-level survey data for developing countries across the world. In terms of labour productivity, we noted that it varies inversely with all the three foreign ...Reflecting on Gendered Effect of COVID-19 in the Backdrop of PLFS...
The paper tries to assess the status of women employment by analyzing the data from the recently released Government of India’s Periodic labour Force Survey (PLFS ) 2018-19 and also throws light on gendered effect on labour market during Corona times.COVID-19 Pandemic and Livelihood Loss: Variations in Unemployment Outcomes...
The paper notes significant variations in the rise in the unemployment rate across regions though the nationwide lockdown was implemented without any discrimination. It explores the reasons of such disparities and notes that migration is an important factor. States with higher rates of migration and urbanisation rate, greater dependency on casual wage ...Services Sector in India: Does It Contribute to Population Movement and...
Based on the cross-sectional data this study examines the role of the services sector in the context of migration from the rural to the urban areas. The dominance of the services sector in the urban setup seems to be working as a pull factor.While industrialisation is seen to encourage migration, the three-equation-recursive ...Fourth industrial revolution and India’s employment problem
International Journal of social EconomicsEmployment Modeling in India
After working out the long term series on employment based on forecast methods using the cross sectional estimates of elasticity of unorganized/informal sector employment with respect to organized/formal sector employment this paper argues that the long term employment growth in India has been sluggish. In the time series framework it is also ...Informal Sector in India: Migration and Poverty Implications
Regional Economics Development Research.Informal Sector in India: Migration and Poverty Implications.
Regional Economics Development Research.